quirk

英 [kwɜːk]

美 [kwɜːrk]

n.  怪异的性格(或行为); 怪癖; (尤指偶发的)怪事，奇事

复数：quirks　过去式：quirked　现在分词：quirking　

考研GRETEM8

Collins.1 / BNC.14107 / COCA.12149

牛津词典

noun

• 怪异的性格（或行为）；怪癖
  an aspect of sb's personality or behaviour that is a little strange
• （尤指偶发的）怪事，奇事
  a strange thing that happens, especially by accident
  1. By a strange quirk of fate they had booked into the same hotel.
     真是天缘奇遇，他们住进了同一家旅馆。

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT (偶然发生的)奇事，趣事
  Aquirkis something unusual or interesting that happens by chance.
  1. By a tantalising quirk of fate, the pair have been drawn to meet in the first round of the championship...
     仿佛是命运的捉弄，这对选手在锦标赛第一轮比赛中就狭路相逢。
  2. The spate of storms and hurricanes in recent years could be a statistical quirk.
     从统计数字上看，近些年来暴风雨和飓风的频发非同寻常。
• N-COUNT 怪癖;古怪的性格
  Aquirkis a habit or aspect of a person's character which is odd or unusual.
  1. Brown was fascinated by people's quirks and foibles.
     布朗对人们的种种怪癖十分着迷。

英英释义

noun

• a narrow groove beside a beading
• a strange attitude or habit
  Synonym:oddityqueernessquirkinesscrotchet

verb

• twist or curve abruptly
  1. She quirked her head in a peculiar way

双语例句

• The spate of storms and hurricanes in recent years could be a statistical quirk.
  从统计数字上看，近些年来暴风雨和飓风的频发非同寻常。
• This is the result of a deliberate plan by the Hong Kong regulator rather than a quirk of fate.
  这是香港监管机构有意而为的结果，并非天意如此。
• Even if the Greenstein and Forman study is just a quirk, which I suspect is not the case, it still points to an interesting issue.
  即使格林斯坦和福尔曼的研究只是个异常现象（我觉得事实并非如此），它仍然指出了一个有趣的问题。
• I also discovered that XFS has a singular performance quirk: it doesn't delete files very quickly; it was easily bested by both ReiserFS and ext3 in this area.
  我还发现XFS有一个单点性能缺陷：它删除文件不是很快；在这一方面，ReiserFS和ext3轻易地胜过了它。
• On the whole, I really enjoyed this space for the pure quirk and whimsy of it.
  从整体上来说，我真的非常享受这个纯净同时充满新奇理念的空间。
• An added quirk is that your screen saver is also set to make a slideshow of these pictures.
  你也可以将你的屏幕保护设置为这些图片的幻灯片形式。
• However, my parents, both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing personal quirk that could never pay a mortgage, or secure a pension.
  不过，我的父母，他们都来自贫穷的背景，没有任何一人上过大学，坚持认为我过度的想象力是一个令人惊讶的个人怪癖，根本不足以让我支付按揭，或者取得足够的养老金。
• Asset managers have never faced such stiff competition, says Ben Phillips, partner of Casey Quirk, a US consultancy.
  美国咨询公司CaseyQuirk的合伙人本菲利普斯（BenPhillips）表示，资产管理公司从未面对过如此激烈的竞争。
• The carving craze is the grave of safe, carefree, efficient skiing, an irrational fantasy, a binding fashion, a quirk bent on putting basic physics to shame!
  对刻滑的狂热，葬送了滑雪的安全性、娱乐性和舒适性，是一个失去理性的白日梦，一个伪装的时髦，一个让基础物理学感到羞愧的怪癖。
• Some critics have questioned whether the linkage between income inequality and worse health is merely a mathematical quirk.
  有些批评者质疑，收入不均与健康情况不良之间的关联，可能只是数学的怪异表现。